Anne Fadiman

News about Anne Fadiman, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Sep. 15, 2012

Lia Lee, severely brain-damaged daughter of Hmong refugees who had resettled in California, died in Sacamento on Aug 31 after spending the last 26 of her 30 years in a persistent vegetative state; Lia, who suffered heavily from seizures, was the subject of Ann Fadiman's 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. MORE

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An essay on March 4, ''Confessions of a Book Abuser,'' by Ben Schott, defended the ways people physically ''mistreat'' books. Readers have subsequently pointed out a number of resemblances between Schott's essay and ''Never Do That to a Book,'' an...

March 25, 2007, Sunday

Questions for Bush DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, author of a forthcoming history of Abraham Lincoln's White House: History suggests our best presidents acknowledge error, learn from mistakes, grow in the job. Lincoln readily conceded a number of...

Big Price for Big Book The master copy of the working draft of the book ''Alcoholics Anonymous,'' which belonged to William Wilson, a co-founder of A.A., was sold at auction yesterday for $1.576 million. Sotheby's sold the 161-page manuscript,...

April 2, 2004, Friday

Under the editorship of Anne Fadiman, The American Scholar, one of the country's premier literary journals, has been a magnet for both prizes and buzz. Its witty essays by leading writers on subjects as varied as jigsaw puzzles and diabetes have...

EX LIBRIS Confessions of a Common Reader By Anne Fadiman 162 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $16. When Anne Fadiman was growing up, she writes in her endearing collection of essays, ''Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader,'' her family...

October 15, 1998, Thursday

NEWS Standing Tall Gene Autry, 90, the singing cowboy who brought major league baseball to Anaheim, Calif., will be honored with a bronze statue when the California Angels' remodeled stadium opens tomorrow. The statue depicts him wearing a bolo...